Naval Warfare for All: From Patrol Boats to Carrier Fleets

"Staff Officer Qi, assess the approximate rank of the two warships charging towards us?"

Ye Bai stood next to the porthole of the bridge, and said to Qi Sicheng behind him without looking back, in view of the current lack of officers on the Yanhuang, Qi Sicheng's work is also quite busy, usually it is okay, you only need to plan the route of the Yanhuang and command the pilot group.

But wartime is different, in the course of naval battles, Qi Sicheng not only has to command the navigation of the Yanhuang, but also needs to serve as a staff officer for Ye Bai, responsible for providing Ye Bai with some professional knowledge and advice.

Although Qi Sicheng is not a professional combat staff officer, he has a professional military education, such as the current situation, he can roughly judge the size and tonnage of the battleship by sight.

"Captain, there are three enemy ships in total, except for the lead one with a tonnage of more than 2,000 tons, probably a destroyer, the other two are only a few hundred tons, which should be the level of gunboats."

Although Qi Sicheng's answer was not accurate, Ye Bai did not blame him, after all, the naval warships of this era have not fully formed a system at all, and they are fundamentally different from the conventional warship types in later generations, and Qi Sicheng cannot accurately judge and there is nothing strange about 327.

Ye Bai himself was not familiar with these, and when he heard this, he just spoke: "Pass the order down, the target of the fire collection remains unchanged, the main gun maintains a full attack, sinks the target enemy ship as soon as possible, for the 3 warships that are approaching, use the ship's 20mm barrel cannon to deal with it, and torpedoes can be used when necessary." "

At this time, Ye Bai actually regretted a little, when upgrading the fire system for the Yanhuang before, the main gun and torpedo were similarly configured, but ignored the secondary gun system on the battleship, and could only rely on the 420mm barrel cannons arranged on the sides of the ship and the 12.7mm caliber heavy machine gun originally arranged above the shipbuilding and now transferred to the side guns.

However, in the current situation, Ye Bai had no other choice, and in the face of a surprise attack, most of the Fujian naval divisions whose warships were damaged no longer had much ability to provide strong support to the Yanhuang, which is equivalent to saying that in this naval battle, the Yanhuang was equivalent to single-handedly singling out the French expeditionary fleet.

Three twin main guns to concentrate all the firepower on the Triumph, simply unable to free up their hands to attack the 3 French warships that rushed quickly, once the two single-barreled 20mm guns deployed on the side could not be stopped, Ye Bai could only choose to use torpedoes, 5,000 torpedoes per shot were used on these old battleships, although there were some losses, but where can you worry so much at the moment of crisis.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

The members of the artillery crew on the Yanhuang have experienced many baptisms of naval battles, and the cooperation between them has been quite tacit, and then there are master-level gunners as commanders, and the hit rate is getting higher and higher, and the fight is getting more and more accurate.

Under the round of volleys, dozens of shells fell around the Triumph one after another, blowing up countless waves and causing a lot of damage to the Triumphal hull.

As the number one capital battleship in the French expeditionary fleet, the combat effectiveness of the Triumph itself is quite good, with a tonnage of more than 4,000 tons, allowing it to be equipped with 6 238mm barreled guns, 6 140mm barreled guns and many other guns on the battleship, and the armor on the side has reached 150mm, even if it is not a sneak attack, a single Triumph can almost press the entire Fujian naval division.

But in the end, it is quite an old-fashioned antique warship, even if the Yanhuang only belongs to the scientific and technological level of World War II on Earth, the fierce artillery fire still makes the Triumph catch fire and smoke everywhere.

The Triumph, which was frantically shelling the Fujian Naval Division, faced the fierce artillery fire of the Yanhuang, and no longer continued to bombard, frantically adjusted its direction, aimed its guns at the Yanhuang, and the two warships launched a fierce artillery battle.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

Constantly there were shells streaking through the air, flying towards (cabc) the opponent's warship, falling into the sea and causing violent explosions, but under this artillery battle, it was the Yanhuang who took advantage.

It already occupies the advantage of the first hand, the density of firepower is not small, and the level and tacit understanding of the gunner are also quite superb, and even surpass the gunner on the Triumph, and quickly gain the upper hand in the artillery battle.

Especially when a 102mm bomb on the Yanhuang and its lucky hit the power compartment of the Triumph and blew up the steam boiler on the Triumph on the spot, the fate of the Triumph was almost sealed.

The burning fire has not been extinguished, thick black smoke covers the entire Triumph, the steam boiler is blown up, and the Triumph almost loses most of its power, and can no longer drag the heavy hull weighing more than 4,000 tons, and can only be forced to stop above the sea and cannot move. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）

Ye Bai's eyes, who were always paying attention to the situation of the Triumph, lit up, and he quickly shouted loudly: "Torpedo ready, aim at the largest enemy warship, fire two volleys, and blast it to the bottom of the sea for me." "

At this time, Ye Bai simply did not care about saving costs, and used 2 expensive 533mm mines in one breath, wanting to completely hit the heavily injured Triumph, maybe one was enough, but Ye Bai did not want to take this risk at all, or chose to be safe, and directly used two 533mm torpedoes.

"Yes, Captain."

The communicator on the side quickly grabbed the intercom and relayed Ye Bai's order to the torpedo operator on the deck, and then two 533mm torpedoes flew out of the five-mounted torpedo tubes that had just been transformed by the Yanhuang and fell into the sea.

As soon as the torpedo entered the water, it was really called like a fish in the water, and under the support of strong power, it sailed quickly on the sea at a high speed of more than 40 knots, bringing up white waves.

If it was during World War II, when the development of torpedoes was relatively mature, and the navies of various countries attached great importance to it, the traces of these two torpedoes sailing in the sea could not be concealed by professional naval crews at all, and it was likely to be avoided by the target warship.

But now in 1884, torpedo technology is not mature at all, even if some lookouts sharply see the waves on the sea, they do not realize what kind of weapon this is, and they will not pay attention to it.

The distance between the Triumph and the Yanhuang is now less than 7 kilometers, which is not a problem for torpedoes with a maximum range of 14,000 meters, and the high speed of more than 40 knots within a range of 6 kilometers makes this distance even more timeless.

"Boom", "Boom"

In a short period of time, two 533mm mines plunged headlong under the waterline of the Triumph, which could not move on the sea, and the weak armor could not stop the heavy torpedoes of this caliber, and they were easily penetrated.